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A man weight 60 kg is standing on a lift and the lift is moving downwards with an acceleration that is equal to the gravitational acceleration; The apparent weight of the man is

Option: 1

0


Option: 2

500 N


Option: 3

980 N


Option: 4

100 N


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Acceleration due to gravity = acceleration of the lift = 9.8ms^{-2}

Force in the downward direction and Upward direction will satisfy this equation

apparent weight =Mg' = M(g-a) here g=a 

Therefore apparent weight will be zero

 

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